Debra T. Silverman
American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist
About Debra T. Silverman
Born 1948. Debra T. Silverman is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist.
Debra Toby Silverman (born December 31, 1948) is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist specialized in bladder cancer epidemiology and the carcinogenicity of diesel exhaust. Silverman is the chief of the occupational and environmental epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life Silverman was born December 31, 1948. Silverman earned a Sc.M. in health statistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her master's degree was funded by a U.S. Public Health Service traineeship. Her 1972 thesis was titled Maternal smoking and birth weight. Her advisor was James Tonascia. Silverman returned to NCI and has worked as a cancer epidemiologist since 1983.
She specializes in bladder cancer epidemiology and the carcinogenicity of diesel exhaust.
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American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist
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Debra T. Silverman was born on 31 December 1948.
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Debra T. Silverman is a biostatistician and epidemiologist.
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